The Wild, Wild West is stylish, colorful and just campy enough
to stay interesting, undeniably one of the most exciting and offbeat television
shows of the 1960s, a true classic that stands the test of time.

The pace of year 3 is a little slower than the previous 2. The production
was revamped slightly for year 3 and has a grittier, more realistic feel
to it than in earlier seasons without sacrificing too much of the whimsy.
For year 3, Secret Service agents Jim West and Artemus Gordon are armed
with an new arsenal of nifty but unlikely high tech gadgets to spirit
them out of danger. They also sport some snazzy new outfits for romancing
the ladies and generally looking cool as they knock heads and ride off
triumphantly.

Overall there's too much chatting but Wild, Wild West Season
3 is still a rip-roaring series of bizarre adventures. The duo's diminutive
arch enemy Megalito Loveless returns for one terrific episode where he
fakes his own death; other far fetched scenarios find West and Gordon
saving the nation from an assortment of mad revolutionaries, foiling elaborate
bank robberies, confronting roaming gangs, battling voodoo zombies, and
stopping the spread of small pox.

This series aired Friday nights on CBS for 4 years and beat everything
thrown against it. Considered one of the most violent shows on television
at the time (I mean, c'mon, a gal gets slugged in the opening credits),
it was outraged parent groups that convinced CBS to reluctantly cancel
the program. Compared to what we're accustom to today it's strictly cartoon
violence, no blood but plenty of creative torture techniques. In the end,
there's never any doubt as to who'll come out on top. (Why does
the villain always leave the room before the good guys are dead?)

You'll find these episodes are beautifully restored and remastered, they've
never looked or sounded better. There are no audio commentaries as were
found in the season 1 set - unfortunate because series star Robert Conrad
did a great job.

Which
Season to buy if
you bought only one?

Besides being shot in black and white, season 1 was darker in mood than
the years that followed. I found season 2 to be the most satisfying mix
of adventure and humor but many fans (who will want to own every year
as I certainly do) consider year 3 to be tops.

Product Description:
James West and Artemus Gordon are two agents of President Grant who take
their splendidly appointed private train through the west to fight evil.
Half science fiction and half western, the Artemus designs a series of interesting
gadgets for James that would make Inspector Gadget proud. A light hearted
adventure series

Martin Milner
(Tod Stiles) and George Maharis (Buz Murdock) star in this classic television
drama about a couple of young guys who set out to see America in a brand
new 1961 Corvette drop top.

What
makes this show truly unique is that it was filmed in a different U.S.
city each week, giving us a stark glance at what living in America looked
like in 1960. It was a vastly different landscape, people lived a lot
closer to the dirt back then. (I'll bet that decrepit New Orleans dock
in episode three is a multi-million dollar condo development if it wasn't
washed away by the levy failure.)

No
television show had ever attempted anything on this grand a scale before,
the technology necessary to make mobile TV production a practical enterprise
had just been made available.

The last
of the classic variety shows and one of the finest TV programs of all
time, The Muppet Show Season 2 is an unrestrained delight
from start to finish. This amazing production lit up the screens when
it debuted in 1976 and the second season may be the best of the series'
run.

The sing-alongable
theme song. The incredible guest stars. The crazy costumes. Pigs in space.
The crabby guys in the balcony. The love / hate relationship between Piggy
and Kermit. All here to relive or experience for the first time. If you
are encountering The Muppet Show for the first time, what a treat
you're in for; if you watched the show as a youngster you may find yourself
uncontrollably singing along with the bizarrely choreographed Tin Pan
Alley tunes.

No question,
this is Muppet-mania at its peak, before the many hit movies and Muppets
on Ice diluted the product. How wonderful to see the delightful Edgar
Bergen & Charlie McCarthy and Miss Piggy trading barbs that could
have come right out of radio. (In fact, some of the jokes do harken from
Bergen's radio days.)

Episodes
of The Wild Wild West Season 3 found in this new
DVD collection:

The
Night of Jack O' Diamonds
The Night of the Firebrand
The Night of the Assassin
The Night of the Bubbling Death
The Night of the Cut-throats
The Night of the Hangman
The Night of Montezuma's Hordes
The Night of Montezuma' s Revenge
The Night of the Amnesiac
The Night Doctor Loveless Died
The Night of the Samurai
The Night of the Arrow
The Night of the Circus of Death
The Night of the Falcon
The Night of the Legion of Death
The Night of the Black Legion
The Night of the Running Death
The Night of the Turncoat
The Night of the Iron Fist
The Night of the Headless Woman
The Night of the Underground Terror
The Night of the Brotherhood of Hell
The Night of the Vipers
The Night of the Death Masks
The Night of the Undead
The Night of the Simian Terror
The Night of the Beast
The Night of the Death-Maker